A WOMAN has shared her terrifying experience of being haunted at night by a 'blue man' while living in a Flintshire house.

The story was told on series three, case one of the hit paranormal podcast 'Uncanny' on BBC Sounds, which is presented by Danny Robins.

A former Flintshire resident, known only as Sarah, detailed her spooky experiences on the podcast's latest episode.

Sarah, who now lives in Manchester, moved into a new house in Higher Shotton alongside her mum in 1999.

The then 17-year-old was going through a difficult period in her life having just lost her grandfather and, all the while, also preparing for her A-levels.

That lifestyle was the perfect recipe for stress dreams, which was initially what Sarah thought had resulted in her strange encounters.

One particular re-occuring dream she had was that of a blue man stood in the corner of her bedroom. 

Speaking on 'Uncanny', Sarah re-called: "One night, not too long after moving into this house - I woke up and I was freezing cold.

"In that brief second of waking up, I could see a man in the corner of my room. Physically, you were not able to stand in the corner of that bedroom.

"He was tall and slim, had a long trenchcoat and a trilby hat that was down over the face area. There was no detail to face or anything like that, but there was this incredible blueness.

"He was so sad, the sadness I felt in that moment was the sadness of losing my grandfather all over again."

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Sarah says that the sightings of the man would always happen at 2.30am and became more and more often - up to 'four visits a week'.

As mentioned before, she had assumed that this vision was as a result of stress dreams - that was until her friend Becky also reported to have seen the same figure.

When sleeping over one night, she too reported that she had seen the blue man - despite Sarah having never mentioned him to her friend before.

Things took an even scarier turn later on when a family friend named Edwina, who claimed to be psychic, described the same entity (despite having no previous knowledge) and refused to enter Sarah's bedroom because of it.

Sarah explained that a priest would then come to visit the home, before blessing it and suggetsing that Sarah should 'ask the entity to leave' whenever she saw it.

She added that the visits became 'fewer and fewer' after this.

Things took an even more haunting turn later on in the conversation when Sarah says that the dad of one of her friends (Emily) gives her a little more history about the home.

He tells her that the house was built on part of a farm and that, in the barn, someone had died there - either a farmer who had killed himself over his wife's affair or the man she was having the affair with.

This was something that was 'local folklore' in Higher Shotton, Sarah discovered.

But, the strangest part of the tale was yet to come.

Sarah moved away to university in Autumn of that year and her mum moved house again soon after.

But, just last year, miles away from where the apparent haunting took place, Sarah joined a hiking group with people she had never met previously. 

The four-hour hike ended in a story-sharing session where she told her tale to others and, incredibly, and older man there had had the same experience around 30 years ago.

He told Sarah that he had been playing in the field near the house in the 1970's and spotted the same 'blue figure' out of the corner of his eye. Creepy!

Uncanny presenter Danny described the experience for Sarah as a 'freakishly consistent nightmare'.

Psychologist Ciarán O'Keefe and writer and psychologist Evelyn Hollow also offered their insights.

Ciarán thinks that Sarah's initial experiences could be a result of sleep-related hallucinations, however he questions this when Edwina comes into the tale and witnesses the entity in broad daylight.

Meanwhile, Evelyn suggests that, if there were something traumatic attached to the room or the land itself, that could explain the experiences shared by all witnesses.

Sarah concludes by saying: "I'd really like to know why he was so sad and what happened in that barn."

Danny says, following research, his team has confirmed that there were barns on that field and there were several suicides there too - four between 1883 and 1983 - three of them by drowning.

The Uncanny podcast has proven so popular so far that it is now set to become a TV series on BBC Two as of October 13.